Movies in which couples overcome various misunderstandings to eventually hug and kiss as the credits roll ask us to believe that their characters will be together forever.

So I got to thinking: assuming that the couples who get together at the end of movies stay together into the foreseeable future, what must they look like now? Surely they are still together, making coffee in the mornings, shuffling children off to this activity or that, taking trips to see plays and figuring out new digital cameras on the occasional Alaskan cruise.

I present the following as aids to your imagination, helping you to picture the lives of these fictional characters extended out ten, twenty, thirty years until the strange story of their first, accidental meeting is family legend retold every Thanksgiving to the grandchildren: “You know I used to fly Tomcats in the Navy — well, one day, Grandma waltzed into my classroom at Miramar, and I about flipped my lid. I told her about a MiG I’d seen recently, and she tried to freeze me out. And then I played volleyball for a while with Uncle Iceman.”

As someone who hates chick flicks…I know all the chick movies on this list and then some.
Can’t Hardly Wait
Clueless
Doc Hollywood
Graduate(love this one)
Pretty Woman
Out of Africa
Reality Bites
Red Sonja(when she like Arnold…Before Marrying Rocky and moving on to Flavor Flav!)
Splash
Star Wars IV A New Hope
Top Gun
When Harry Met Sally( I’ll have what she’s having)
Willow
While You Were Sleeping.

am I the Weenier?

Josh

I think it’s amazing how little some of the actors’ appearances have changed. Makes it especially obvious who’s had plastic surgery and who hasn’t.

Oliver Montero

Even with plastic surgery one can deduct one thing for all this images: Men age better than women….

Hamilton-Lovecraft

Well, come on, the last few seconds of The Graduate make it pretty clear that there isn’t going to be a happily-ever-after.

Jason

I think Meg Ryan has been hit by the Joker (circa ’89).

Back then (before I knew who either of them were) I thought Paul Rudd was Ben Affleck.

JLH looks better now than she did then.

Yooie

The current Richard Gere looks perfect for the character he played twenty years earlier in Pretty Woman.